Help A Guy: Does Length Really Matter? - Page 4

dissention · #46 07-13-2005, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by sparky

I like a really thick song generally...I mean, um..

A long song is fine if it's going somewhere. As has been said, I love the intro to In The Back Of My Mind. And I love the intro to SOTM. And the song BTM.
Sometimes though, instrumentals go nowhere...part of the live Stand Back intro, Mick's drum solo...

Don't we all...

That Taku **** before Stand Back makes me fall asleep. It's as satisfying as letting a kid into your kitchen to bang on your pots and pans with a wooden spoon. Mick's drum solo should be banished for all of eternity.

dudden22 · #47 07-13-2005, 01:14 PM

The Ledge is way too short.

dissention · #48 07-13-2005, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sparky

IT'S THE POET THAT SHE IS, fer cryin out loud.

Sorry, I forgot. The unfinished train of thought in the first verse threw me off. And I try to block it out for the most part because of those singing Smurfs at the tail end of it.

**mylittledemon** · #49 07-13-2005, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Another one that is agonizingly long is Hollywood on the Time album. It pains me.

- Jake

I know somewhere in Texas, CHILId is going to protest...but EVERYTHING on "Time" pains me.

**mylittledemon** · #50 07-13-2005, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by madformac

That's the most appalling thing I've ever heard...

ISA Dance Version is perfect....

yes I agree. The Dance version of that song is perfecto. It's pretty much the version I stick to when I've played it live. Although I changed the solo now to match the "Live in Boston" version too. Love his riffs on that stuff!

darklinensuit · #51 07-13-2005, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

For me, the song goes absolutely nowhere and it certainly isn't helped by her singing the same chorus over and over. And over and over. And over. Was she just too lazy to think of more stuff?

Aren't you a Family Man lover?

- Jake

darklinensuit · #52 07-13-2005, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by mylittledemon

I know somewhere in Texas, CHILId is going to protest...but EVERYTHING on "Time" pains me.

Like I said, I like All Over Again a lot, but I can't stand most of Chris's other tunes on it, which is rare for me.

- Jake

darklinensuit · #53 07-13-2005, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

Lest we forget the INSANE synth intro to Stand Back on Red Rocks. Jesus.

I love that, especially the drums. I love the looser feel of this version compared to the Shake The Cage Tour tight version.

- Jake

Wild_Heart03 · #54 07-13-2005, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

Lest we forget the INSANE synth intro to Stand Back on Red Rocks. Jesus.

Dear God, that thing goes on FOREVER. So does the EO17 intro.... I remember the song itself as ending up being 14 minutes or so when I got the mp3.

darklinensuit · #55 07-13-2005, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by dudden22

The Ledge is way too short.

I think it's just that it's so fast.

- Jake

dissention · #56 07-13-2005, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Aren't you a Family Man lover?

- Jake

Yeah, the music. You think I like it for the lyrics and the Popeye vocals?

dissention · #57 07-13-2005, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

Some that I think go on too long or have parts in them that go on too long:
Blondie - Atomic
Blondie - Rapture

I was actually quite pissed that they shortened Atomic on the last tour. It used to be epic and they cut it down to five minutes. There can never be enough of Atomic, silly. I totally dug the sound effects that they added onto Rapture, especially the one after she sings "wild attack." Cracks me up.

I agree with the HOG album version, though. I rarely listen to it.

darklinensuit · #58 07-13-2005, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

Some that I think go on too long or have parts in them that go on too long:
Blondie - Atomic
Blondie - Rapture
Blondie - Heart Of Glass

The album versions, at least.

I named Rapture in the first post.

Atomic is my favorite song by them, though I know only the album version. And I can't listen to it without thinking of shampoo.

- Jake

dissention · #59 07-13-2005, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

I must be the worst Blondie fan ever, because whenever Atomic comes on I always listen to the first few minutes, then it gets to that instrumental part (not the bass solo, because that's fun, I think it comes after that) and I just press the Next button. I skip over that part so much I don't even know when that part comes in.

My favorite is the live album version. When Debbie returns after the long instrumental (and only Blondie could morph a song into a spaghetti western dirge and make it work), she sounds so ****ing sexy with that low voice and then nails the very end. Listen to it again, Greg.

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Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

The part in Rapture that bugs is that looooooong instrumental break, I think with the saxophone or whatever. I always fast forward through it.

I don't really listen to the album version of that one, either.

I do like the special disco mix on the resissue, though, for some strange reason.

GardenStateGirlie · #60 07-13-2005, 08:20 PM

Honestly, some versions of Sara are far too long but I was absolutely enthralled with her performances on the SYW tour. I do find Come to be rather annoying at certain points (in the song, wiseasses). I venture to guess it's the repetitiveness of SYW that makes people think it's far too long. I run hot and cold with that song. I find Lindsey's Go Insane album to have some ridiculously long songs on it (namely Play In The Rain and its continuation -- I loose interest after he yells "LET'S PLAY" during the first part -- or maybe it's because that line is so hot that everything after is incredibly anticlimactic?

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